Interested in running for a position on OREA’s 2021 Board of Directors? The following positions are up for election: two Directors-at-Large and four Provincial Directors (one each from the Northern, Eastern, Western and Central Ontario Areas). Directors will serve a two-year term.

Interested candidates must complete and submit an online application (the “Application Form”) by no later than 12:00 midnight, Saturday, January 16, 2021. You will be prompted to log in.

Pre-requisites for 2021 Director-At-Large or Provincial Director Candidates*

• Must be and remain an Individual Member.
• Must have been an Individual Member of a Member Board for the last three years in the five years immediately preceding running for election (that is 2018, 2019 or 2020).
• Must have completed the Leadership 100 and Leadership 200 courses offered by the OREA Centre for Leadership Development.
• In the five years immediately preceding running for election (that is 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020), must have either:
  • served as an OREA Provincial Director or an OREA Director-at-Large; or
  • served on a committee of OREA for at least three years; or
  • served as an officer/or director of a Member Board for at least two years; or
  • served on a committee of a Member Board for at least three years; or
  • served as an officer and/or director of any not-for-profit organization for at least two years.

* Candidates for the position of Central Ontario Provincial Director whose Home Board is the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board are not eligible to run for this position on the 2021 OREA Board of Directors.
(Since the Home Board of the Central Ontario Provincial Director who will continue in the second year of their two-year term in 2021 is the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board)

Please note that there are additional (basic) requirements for all Directors:

• Must be and remain an Individual Member.
• Must not be or become legally incompetent;
• Must not be or become bankrupt or insolvent;
• No Director shall serve continuously past the sixth OREA Annual Meeting after the date the Director was elected and has served continuously from (which may result in a Director not being able to continue serving as a Director for the second year of the two year term for which the Director was elected), unless after the end of that sixth Annual Meeting that Director is the President or the Immediate Past-President *;
• Any individual who is disqualified from continuing to serve as a Director as a result of section 7.02(a)(iv) [OREA By-law] shall be entitled to be elected as a Director again as of the commencement of the third OREA Annual Meeting following the day the Director ceased to be a Director;
• The Director must take and, if requested by the Board of Directors, retake the oath of office, as determined from time to time by the Board of Directors; and
• All newly elected Directors shall before the next Annual Meeting following the meeting at which they were elected for the first time, complete the Leadership 300 course offered by the OREA Centre for Leadership Development, if they have not done so previously.

* Six-year term limit: A candidate elected as Director for 2021 and who has served continuously as Director for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 may not be able to continue serving as a Director for 2022 (i.e. the second year of the 2-year term for which the Director was elected), unless that Director is elected 2021 President-Elect.